He who fears not, is to be feared.

[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.